Text and act : essays on music and performance / Richard Taruskin, 1995
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Information trouvée : Richard Filler Taruskin (April 2, 1945 – July 1, 2022) was an American musicologist
and music critic. Through a family member who had stayed in Russia after the Revolution,
Taruskin had access to recordings of Russian operas besides the most familiar ones,
which sparked his interest in Russian music. He went to Moscow for a year on a Fulbright
Scholarship, where he was interested not only in the language and music, but also
in the way music connects to social and political history. In the 1980s, he explored
the archives of Igor Stravinsky, when they were held by the New York Public Library.
Taruskin was on the faculty of Columbia University from 1975 until 1986. He then moved
to California as a professor of musicology at the University of California, Berkeley,
where he held the Class of 1955 Chair. He retired from Berkeley at the end of 2014